[JDEV] Funky crash today

Tue Aug 6 23:51:49 CDT 2002

The Gabber side of this bug *should* be fixed in CVS now. Jabberoo was 
looping (not crashing!) in the parser_error function. It knew there was 
an error, the code for what to do when there was had a bug, though. 
However, the rest of this bug does not lie in Gabber. You server people 
need to fix that ;)

Robert Norris wrote:
> Ok, I'm sending this here in the vain hope that someone knows exactly
> which piece of software has the bug :)
> 
> I received this packet from jdev at c.j.o today. Gabber crashed upon
> receiving it. It's definently a problem for Gabber, because on
> reconnecting to the room, it continued to crash until the offending
> packet had disappeared from the room history.
> 
> Here's the offending packet:
> 
> <message type='groupchat' to='rob at cataclysm.cx/enigma' from='jdev at conference.jabber.org/theo'><body>I think it is &lt;![CDATA[...]]>, actually.</body></message>
> 
> My first thought was to file a bug against Gabber, however, on looking
> at it, I'm not sure that Gabber is necessarily at fault.
> 
> I would guess that the problem is the > char that isn't escaped.
> 
> AFAIK, the path taken by that text is:
> 
> Adam Theo               (Jarl 0.6000 / Net::Jabber 1.0025)
> theoretic.com           (jabberd 1.4.2)
> conference.jabber.org   (SCM? / jabberd 1.4.2 / conference 0.4)
> cataclysm.cx            (jabberd 1.4.2 / jadc2s 1.5CVS)
> Me                      (Gabber 0.8.7)
> 
> Any one of these could have messed up the packet in some way. However,
> my client seems to be the only thing that crashed.
> 
> So, anyone what to hazard a guess as to who I should file the bug report
> with?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob.
> 